Surf Software

ABSTRACT

Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method for intelligent management of a plurality of active data files in a plurality of the systems, operated upon by a plurality of active applications, comprising: identifying said plurality of active data files in a plurality of the system, operated upon by a plurality of active applications which are operably connected to said computer; retrieving said identified plurality of active data files of said file system which is operated upon by said active applications which are operably connected to said computer; grouping said plurality of active data files into a list using an algorithm; storing in a storage medium of said computer said retrieved plurality of active data files operated upon in a plurality of active applications operably connected to said computer; displaying through a graphical user interface, said grouped files on a display means of said computer.

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS

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FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT

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MICROFICHE

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BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

(1) Field of the Invention

The invention relates generally to a computer implemented method ofconveniently operating a computing resource. More particularly to asystem and a method of saving multiple browsing sessions and data filesinto a computer readable medium which could be revisited and utilized ata later time.

(2) Background

Users have today a possibility to reach and be reached by a vast amountof information on a variety of user devices through the World Wide Web.Such user devices include telephones, handheld devices, personalcomputers (PCs), personal digital assistants (PDAs), and the like. Theinformation may be provided to the user in a push mode, that is,information is provided to the user without a specific action on theuser's side. In general, the user attempts to receive relevantinformation that provides the user with significant insights into theareas of interest to the user. The World Wide Web however, is agraphical and interactive interface for the Internet. There aredifferent web browsing clients on a data processing system commonlyreferred as computers which are connected to the Internet that areutilized to access servers connected to the Web. The program on theserver is generally termed a “website.” Websites are a collection of“web pages,” where web pages are graphic displays which are usuallylinked together and may be downloaded to a data processing systemutilizing a browser client. Each web page has a unique address, orUniversal Resource Locator (URL) within the Web that is accessible byutilizing Transfer Control Protocol/internet Protocol (TCP/IP)transactions via telecommunication networks and a modem. The addressallows Internet “browser” clients (computer program applications) toconnect and communicate with a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) serverover the Web.

In several instances, users have visited useful websites and retaineduseful bookmarks. However, the user often forgets to add the web page tothe bookmark list or, adds the bookmark but forgets the title of thesite. The browser client history file automatically records each webpage visited and retains it for a period of time specified by thebrowser developer or user. Also users don't know about the historyrecord that is automatically stored and even if they did, the record isentered in no particular order, thus making it very hard to search.Furthermore, URLs may not be descriptive and if a user knew there was asubject that the user wanted to re-visit, it would be difficult toimpossible to find that address in the history record. Even though anASCII search may be made of both the bookmark and history records, theURLs included may not provide any clues as to the link between thedesired subject and a web page. Additionally, there are “off-line”browsers that utilize the browser client to search specified sites forkey parameters, but the user must enter an identification of the pagesto be searched. Also, there are stand-alone off-line browsers thatautomatically access specified web pages unattended or in the backgroundand download the web pages.

Therefore it will be desirable to provide a method and system that cansave multiple tabs in a window allowing a user to do a topical search,allow a user to do a more efficient search in the web and aid the userin handling more information.

BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Primarily, an invention is computer implemented method for intelligentmanagement of a plurality of active data files in a plurality of filesystems, operated upon by a plurality of active applications thatcomprising of steps wherein the method identifies the plurality ofactive data files in a plurality of file system, operated upon by aplurality of active applications which are operably connected to saidcomputer; thereafter the method retrieves the identified plurality ofactive data files of said file system which is operated upon by theactive applications which are operably connected to said computer. Agrouping of the plurality of active data files using an algorithm, thealgorithm is based on user interaction with an active data file fromsaid one or more data files and on metadata describing said active datafile, further the metadata comprises document type, document accesshistory, document edit history, keywords, or author information. Furtherthe method stores the retrieved plurality of active data files operatedupon by a plurality of active applications operably connected to thecomputer, in a memory of the computer and displays the grouped activedata file through a graphical user interface on said grouped files on adisplay means of said computer.

In another embodiment of the present invention provides a computerimplemented method and a system for more convenient online and offlineresearching or working with a computing resource like a smart phone, PCor a smart PDA. The method in yet another embodiment provides a computerimplemented method and a system for performing a topical search using acomputing resource. The method also provides a means of saving in acomputer readable medium all the URLs and active files of any accessedwebsite or application visited or used at least one in the computingresource.

Additionally the invention provides a means for allowing access to alist with plurality of URLs of websites in the web browsing clientapplication and the saved files of the different application of thecomputing resource. Moreover, the invention provides a means to compilethe URLs and data files in a computer readable storage medium and to beaccessed in the same window simultaneously in the web browsing clientapplication. Moreover, the invention provides a means of creating,editing, adding and detecting of active data files from the list.

The summary is provided to introduce a selection of concepts in asimplified form that are further described below in the detaileddescription. This Summary is not intended to identify key features oressential features of the subject matter, nor is it intended to be usedas an aid in determining the scope of the subject matter.

In this respect, before explaining at least one embodiment of theinvention in detail, it is to be understood that the invention is notlimited in its application to the details of construction and to thearrangements of the components set forth in the following description orillustrated in the drawings. The invention is capable of otherembodiments and of being practiced and carried out in various ways.Also, it is to be understood that the phraseology and terminologyemployed herein are for the purpose of description and should not beregarded as limiting.

These together with other objects of the invention, along with thevarious features of novelty which characterize the invention, arepointed out with particularity in the disclosure. For a betterunderstanding of the invention, its operating advantages and thespecific objects attained by its uses, reference should be had to theaccompanying drawings and descriptive matter in which there areillustrated preferred embodiments of the invention.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The drawings constitute a part of this specification and includeexemplary embodiments to the invention, which may be embodied in variousforms. It is to be understood that in some instances various aspects ofthe invention may be shown exaggerated or enlarged to facilitate anunderstanding of the invention.

FIG. 1 is an illustration of the working of the product in anandroid-based mobility.

FIG. 2 is an illustration of the concept for the tool/application'sinformation delivery in mobility.

FIG. 3 is an illustration of how to find the application in a windowsenvironment.

DETAILED DESCRIPTIONS OF THE INVENTION

The following is a detailed description of example embodiments of theinvention depicted in the accompanying drawings. The example embodimentsare in such detail as to dearly communicate the invention. However, theamount of detail offered is not intended to limit the anticipatedvariations of embodiments; but, on the contrary, the intention is tocover all modifications, equivalents, and alternatives falling withinthe spirit and scope of the present invention. The detailed descriptionsbelow are designed to make is such embodiments obvious to a person ofordinary skill in the art.

The present invention can be implemented on any communication devicethat has hardware components that can perform telecommunication such as(but not limited to)—computers (desktop, laptop, tablets), smart phones,personal multimedia devices, etc.

The various devices on which the applications that implement the presentinvention run may use one or more processors with differentinstruction-sets, architectures, clock-speeds, etc. and memory that mayinclude high speed random access memory and may include non-volatilememory such as one or more magnetic disk storage devices, flash memorydevices and other kinds of solid state memory devices.

The various applications that can implement the present invention run onelectronic devices that may use at least one physical user interfacedevice that provide the means of control and navigation within theoperating system and applications that run on the devices include (butnot limited to) touch-pads such as those described in (but not limitedto)—(1) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/722,948 (“Touch pad forhandheld device”, filed Nov. 25, 2003); (2) U.S. patent application Ser.No. 10/188,482 (“Touch pad for handheld device”, filed Mar. 21, 2006);(3) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 08/210,610 (“Computer system withtouchpad support in operating system”, filed Mar. 18, 1994); (4) U.S.patent application Ser. No. 643,256 (“Movable touch pad with addedfunctionality”, filed Ser. No. 10/643,256), touch screens such as thosedescribed in (but not limited to) (1) U.S. patent application Ser. No.11/381,313, “Multipoint Touch Surface Controller,” filed on May 2, 2006;(2) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/840,862, “MultipointTouchscreen,” filed on May 6, 2004; (3) U.S. patent application Ser. No.10/903,964, “Gestures For Touch Sensitive Input Devices,” filed on Jul.30, 2004; (4) U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/048,264, “Gestures ForTouch Sensitive Input Devices,” filed on Jan. 31, 2005; (5) U.S. patentapplication Ser. No. 11/038,590, “Mode-Based Graphical User interfacesFor Touch Sensitive Input Devices,” filed on Jan. 18, 2005; (6) U.S.patent application Ser. No. 11/228,758, “Virtual Input Device PlacementOn A Touch Screen User Interface,” filed on Sep. 16, 2005; (7) U.S.patent application Ser. No. 11/228,700, “Operation Of A Computer With ATouch Screen Interface,” filed on Sep. 16, 2005; (8) U.S. patentapplication Ser. No. 11/228,737, “Activating Virtual Keys Of ATouch-Screen Virtual Keyboard,” filed on Sep. 16, 2005 and (9) U.S.patent application Ser. No. 11/367,749, “Multi-Functional Hand-HeldDevice,” filed on Mar. 3, 2006, click wheel such as those described inU.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/549,619 “Method, device, andgraphical user interface for dialing with a click wheel” filed on Oct.13, 2006, keyboards such as those mentioned in (but not limited to) U.S.patent application Ser. No. 07/711,760 (“Ergonomic keyboard inputdevice”, filed on Jun. 6, 1991), mouse such as those described in (butnot limited to) (1) application Ser. No. 09/167,314 (“Computer mousewith enhance control button(s)”, filed on Oct. 6, 1998); (2) applicationSer. No. 08/288,945 (“Roller mouse for implementing scrolling in windowsapplications”, filed on Aug. 10, 1994) and gesture recognition meanssuch as those described in (but not limited to) (1) European Patentapplication publication number: EP2482176 A2 (“Multi-input gesturecontrol for a display screen”, filed on Nov. 4, 2011) and (2) U.S.Patent application with publication number 20120317511 A1 (“DISPLAY WITHBUILT IN 3D SENSING CAPABILITY AND GESTURE CONTROL OF TV”, filed on Aug.21, 2012).

Display means used by these devices may use LCD (liquid crystal display)technology, LED (light Emitting Diode) technology, CRT (Cathode raytube) technology, or LPD (light emitting polymer) technology or anyother display technologies. Various realizations of graphics displaycircuitry that implement a Graphics Processing Unit (GPU) are used toachieve video interface between user and these electronic devices.

Connectivity of these devices with networks such as the internet, anintranet and/or wireless network such as cellular telephone network, awired or wireless local area network (LAN) and/or metropolitan areanetwork (MAN) and/or WAN (wide area network) and other wirelesscommunication is achieved by use of a plurality of communicationstandards, protocols and technologies like Global System for mobilecommunication (GSM), Enhanced Data GSM Environment (EDGE), wideband codedivision of multiple access (W-CDMA), DLNA, LTE (Long Term Evolution),code division of multiple access (CDMA), time division multiple access(TDMA), Bluetooth, Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) and/or any other suitablecommunication protocol, including communication protocols not yetdeveloped as of the filing date of this document.

The present invention may be implemented on applications that run on asingle or variety of operating system platforms including but notlimited to OS X, WINDOWS, UNIX, IOS, ANDROID, SYMBIAN, LINUX, orembedded operating systems such as VxWorks.

The present invention may also be implemented to work with various webbrowsers including but not limited to Internet Explorer, MozillaFirefox, Safari and Opera that access and handle various types of webpages constructed with various mark-up languages such as HTML, HTML-5,XHTML, XML, etc. and the associated CSS (cascading style sheet) filesand java-script files.

This invention is a method of intelligently managing of a plurality ofactive data files in a plurality of file systems, operated upon by aplurality of active applications that comprising of steps wherein themethod identifies the plurality of active data files in a plurality offile system, operated upon by a plurality of active applications whichare operably connected to said computer; thereafter the method retrievesthe identified plurality of active data files of said file system whichis operated upon by the active applications which are operably connectedto said computer. A grouping of the plurality of active data files usingan algorithm, the algorithm is based on user interaction with an activedata file from said one or more data files and on metadata describingsaid active data file, further the metadata comprises document type,document access history, document edit history, keywords, or authorinformation. Further the method stores the retrieved plurality of activedata files operated upon by a plurality of active applications operablyconnected to the computer, in a memory of the computer and displays thegrouped active data file through a graphical user interface on saidgrouped files on a display means of said computer. Referring to thedrawings, and specifically to FIG. 1 thereof, is shown the graphicaluser interface in a mobile environment of the computing resource whichwill provide the user with the access to a management window, where theuser will have access to list of stored active data files and URLs whichare bundled in a group using an algorithm.

In an exemplary embodiment and with reference to FIG. 1, the inventionaims to provide a means for a user to conveniently browse the World WideWeb, perform a topical search on the World Wide Web, research the onlinecontents of the World Wide Web and manage moreptop/Desc information fromthe World Wide Web.

FIG. 1 illustrates the basic principle of the Product in an AndroidSetting. FIG. 1A shows the user selecting the desired URL/File groupingwhich opens the folder to be utilized as the user chooses (seen in FIG.1B). By selecting the entire folder, the user is able to open allURLs/Files simultaneously in FIG. 2A. In FIG. 2B, the user is seen withhis saved URLS/Files, selecting the desired website/file within theircustomized grouping. FIG. 3 illustrates the basic concept of theinvention for Laptop/Desktop setting. In FIG. 3A, B, & C; we show theuser accessing the product in a Windows setting. Three options allow theuser to access the product in FIG. 3A. FIG. 3B demonstrates right clickoptions available to the User. Finally coming to the last FIG. 3C, whichdemonstrates the product simultaneously furbishing the selected URL/Filegrouping desired by the user.

The invention allows a user to efficiently search the World Wide Web, inthe invention is a computer implemented application which allows theuser to save their searches in an organized manner like in a form oflist or a menu or a catalogue, which a user can visit in his leisure.Also the invention, it provides a means of saving in a computer readablemedium all the URLs of the website visited in at least one window of aweb browsing client application, like a user may have opened multiplewebsite in different tabs of a web browser, now in order to save thewebsite the user may need to save each and every website individually,however with this invention will not need to do the tedious job of everytab of the web browsers. The invention would save all the URLs in thebrowser in a list and store it in a computer readable memory, which theuser can access at later point of time, also the user can edited thelist URLs, added information to the list of URLs, further a user mayalso create a list of URLs and delete it. But the invention would notthe altering any information from the web browsers history. According toanother embodiment of the invention a user may access a windows managerwith the entire set of URI of the accessed websites, ready to beaccessed by prompting a command via personalized algorithm. Furthermore,the invention allows the user to find saved websites, in a moreefficient and convenient manner to find saved sites at a moment'snotice. In one embodiment, the invention provides a means to compile theURLs in a computer readable storage medium like memory and allow theuser to access the URL in the same window and simultaneously access thesame URL in the web browsing client application like Mozilla or googlechrome or safari etc.

In one objective, the invention provides a means to link multiple URLsto/from the web browser at the same time and provided a user friendlygraphical user interface to increase the browsing efficiency of a userof the World Wide Web.

In a one objective of the invention, a user will access the invention byselecting icon of the application in the operating system which willcontain the personalized list of the URL links When a user clicks on theicon of the application it will have a window with a list of links, forexample vacation, then the web browser will open multiple tabs withmultiple websites in a window, which the user had earlier accessed fromthe web browser.

Further if we have a web browser had opened with multiple tabs andmultiple websites therein, the invention would provide a few options tothe user in the browser, like one option would be there for saving allthe tabs, this would avoid the tedious process of going to the filesection of the browser then scrolling down the drop down menu then toclick a option of save window or save tab, another option that the userwill have is a quick save which will allow the user to access the listof saved searches, and in another option the invention provides the userwith a menu with a list of actions to performed like edit the list ofURLs, added information or website to the list of URLs, further a usermay also create a list of URLs and is also allowed to delete it.

in a preferred embodiment of the invention, a user may add or removelink from a list of URLs, create, rename, remove a new list, also theuser is allowed to combine multiple list or send a list.

Further the computer implemented system will produce a plurality ofcolumns for comparisons of the lease agreement obtained from variouswebsite in the World Wide Web in the spreadsheet. Furthermore thespreadsheet will have column supported by a worksheet that will containall the relevant information, necessary to provide a lease payment, andthe user will have all the relevant information to ensure that thechosen dealer that is providing the lease agreement is in fact providinga reasonable lease agreement.

Moreover, the invention is a method for simultaneous organization andprocurement of multiple files/links saved in tabs inside a windowsbrowser, or a list of files from word/excel/office/etc, that are beingaccessed in a mobile or a PC etc.

Although specific embodiments have been illustrated and describedherein, it will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the artthat any arrangement, which is calculated to achieve the same purpose,may be substituted for the specific embodiment shown. This applicationis intended to cover any adaptations or variations of the presentinvention. However, the method procures files simultaneously, saved fromthese programs, regardless of provider, for instance, a file from Wordcan be saved to a list with a file from Photoshop, and a group of tabsfrom the browser, to open simultaneously from one command from the user.

Although the invention has been explained in relation to its preferredembodiment, it is to be understood that many other possiblemodifications and variations can be made without departing from thespirit and scope of the invention.

I claim: 1) A computer implemented method for intelligent management ofa plurality of active data files in a plurality of file systems,operated upon by a plurality of active applications, comprising:identifying said plurality of active data files in a plurality of filesystem, operated upon by a plurality of active applications which areoperably connected to said computer; retrieving said identifiedplurality of active data files of said file system which is operatedupon by said active applications which are operably connected to saidcomputer; grouping said plurality of active data files into a list usingan algorithm; storing in a storage medium of said computer saidretrieved plurality of active data files operated upon in a plurality ofactive applications operably connected to said computer; displayingthrough a graphical user interface, said grouped files on a displaymeans of said computer. 2) The computer-implemented method of claim 1,wherein said algorithm is based on user interaction with an active datafile from said one or more data files. 3) The computer-implementedmethod of claim 1, wherein said algorithm is further based on metadatadescribing said active data file. 4) The computer-implemented method ofclaim 2, wherein the metadata comprises document type, document accesshistory, document edit history, keywords, or author information. 5) Thecomputer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising indexing theset of data files to enable searching of said set of data files. 6) Thecomputer-implemented method of claim 1 further provides a means ofcreating, editing, adding and detecting of active data files from thelist.